Masterson |
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Author:
| Wheeler, Richard S. |
ISBN: | 978-1-58547-079-2 |
Publication Date: | Apr 2001 |
Publisher: | Center Point Large Print
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $27.95 |
Book Description:
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Winner of the 2000 Spur Award for Best Western Novel. "This is classic Wheeler, a solid story about real people told with wit, compassion and a bit of whimsy." - Publishers Weekly. The year is 1919 and Bat Masterson - lawman, gambler, and crony of Wyatt Earp - is working as a sports columnist on the New York Morning Telegraph and enjoying his last legal whiskey as Prohibition looms. Though Bat is bothered by the passage of the Volstead Act, he's even more concerned about the legends...
More DescriptionWinner of the 2000 Spur Award for Best Western Novel. "This is classic Wheeler, a solid story about real people told with wit, compassion and a bit of whimsy." - Publishers Weekly. The year is 1919 and Bat Masterson - lawman, gambler, and crony of Wyatt Earp - is working as a sports columnist on the New York Morning Telegraph and enjoying his last legal whiskey as Prohibition looms. Though Bat is bothered by the passage of the Volstead Act, he's even more concerned about the legends that have grown about him. His life has been so notoriously overblown that Bat decides to head West with his wife and straighten out his own history.